FlyingSquid

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

Middle school is utter shit. Kids are awful to each other as much as they are to their teachers. We literally had to pull our daughter out of her public middle school and put her in a (thankfully also public) online school because she was bullied to the point that she was having thoughts of self-harm. And she hadn’t even let most kids know she was queer yet. She just dared to do things like wear spiked collars, which apparently made her a furry. I don’t even want to know what would have happened when the school decided she was a queer furry.

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

Good for him, but fuck Goodwill.

newsweek.com/woman-alleges-goodwill-exploits-disa…

cnbc.com/…/some-disabled-workers-paid-just-pennie…

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

Corporations are people until a crime is committed, at which point you can’t punish a corporation for a crime a person commits.

I don’t understand it, but apparently that’s how it works.

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

I can’t take 6 more weeks of these temperatures!

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

The first one who emerges says, “whatever you do, do not trap anyone up there with Elon Musk.”

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

You’re asking Germans to do something before getting official permission from the bureaucracy.

You might as well ask a rooster not to crow in the morning.

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

It’s always too soon to talk about guns after a mass shooting and there’s always mass shootings. It works out well for the NRA.

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

Why does the type of gun violence matter? Why does it matter whether or not they know the victims?

I don’t understand the relevance to the gun control discussion.

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

None of those things have anything to do with the type of violence or whether or not they know the victims.

So that really doesn’t explain anything.

This was not about whether or not a gun control discussion is worth having. This is about the relevance of the type of gun violence and whether or not the murderer and the victim new each other. What difference does it make?

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

I’m guessing the author of the article didn’t get to choose where the ad went in, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the ad was inserted automatically without anyone reviewing what went there.

That’s not about the state of journalism, that’s about what companies are willing to let advertisers get away with.

There are many reasons to criticize what is going on in American journalism, but this is not a very good one.

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

Why can’t she do FMLA?

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

My favorite excuse for not paying fast food workers more is, “that’s not supposed to be someone’s permanent job, that’s supposed to be a teenager’s job.”

Great, but we don’t live in your supposed to world and it is a permanent job for a lot of people now.

Also, the idea that you shouldn’t pay a teenager a decent hourly wage either is pretty offensive, but that’s a whole other issue.

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

“But my passport has five stars! Five!”

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

Every so often, something he believes is so absolutely atrocious that even he can’t bring himself to lie about it.

FlyingSquid , 22 days ago

That sounds like a pretty standard campaign move to me.

FlyingSquid OP , 21 days ago

This is true.

A cubic block of pure gold 12 light years across weighs 110 kg.

A cubic block of pure gold 12 microns across weighs 110 kg.

FlyingSquid OP , 22 days ago

Maybe, but ‘I pointed an arrow at a window’ is not the most compelling evidence.

FlyingSquid OP , 22 days ago

I posted it less because of the conspiracy theory itself and more because of what the person thought was conclusive evidence.

FlyingSquid , 22 days ago

The fool. It’s the Tour de France.

He was supposed to kiss his mistress.

FlyingSquid , 22 days ago

He was that night, am I right guys?

FlyingSquid , 22 days ago

They have no imagination when it comes to cheating in the Tour de France these days. Now, it’s all performance enhancing drugs. But back in the good old days-

“They would trail a thin piece of wire right behind a motor car, which, at one end, had a cork fixed on to the end of it,” Cossins explains. “And the rider would wedge the cork between his teeth. And then get towed along with this thing, this wire, pulling him along.”

wbur.org/…/tour-de-france-maurice-garin-peter-cos…

FlyingSquid , 22 days ago

Now to be appealed to SCOTUS where they will declare white supremacy to be not only legal, but mandatory. With Clarence Thomas writing the decision on behalf of the majority.

FlyingSquid , 22 days ago

Getting rid of Chevron puts the entire environment at risk. Now any case of a corporation spewing out any sort of toxic crap anywhere doesn’t end up getting halted by the EPA, it gets put in front of a judge. And believe me, it will only take a few of those before we get to “corporations are presidents, my friend” in terms of what they can legally get away with.

FlyingSquid , 22 days ago

They’re old. They’re not going to be around for the bad parts and they don’t care about anyone but themselves.

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

Do they not have the concept of humor on your planet? That’s too bad. I hope it gets there sometime soon.

FlyingSquid , 22 days ago

I like cornbread and I like hot dogs, so why I have I never liked corn dogs?

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

Yes. People have strong feelings about the possibility that a drag queen will groom their child into becoming trans.

They’re also wrong.

Why you think strong feelings are the same as reality, I don’t know. Are you a Trump voter?

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

I used to tell people that John McAfee always exited a room by jumping through a window while yelling, “MCAFEE RULES!” Which he didn’t, but maybe he did? Anyway, I miss that crazy motherfucker. Sometimes nuts make the world more fun.

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

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FlyingSquid OP , 21 days ago

More importantly, I never did that. But they’re stalking me and harassing me for it anyway. No longer in this community, however.

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

Microsoft executive reading this thread, “note to self: charge monthly subscription for Microsoft To Do with one month free trial.”

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

Me too, but I joined a credit union.

FlyingSquid , 22 days ago

Leaving the ammo out on a shelf outside a 7-11 is not the same as keeping it inside a vending machine outside a 7-11.

FlyingSquid , 22 days ago

This town isn’t massive, but the population is about 60,000 with 100,000 in the metro area so not super rural either- but we still have a TSC. I don’t think it’s about how rural you are.

FlyingSquid , 22 days ago

Yes, I understand that you assumed you knew what I thought rather than just asked me. I already said that.

FlyingSquid OP , 21 days ago

So you want the money wasted this time too?

Again, cannabis and tobacco taxes don’t end up being spent on what they claim they will be spent on. They go into slush funds and get parceled out on bullshit.

If they did things like help with education and such, I’d agree. But they don’t.

FlyingSquid OP , 21 days ago

You may not call this sort of thing wasting taxpayer dollars, but I sure do.

msmagazine.com/…/anti-abortion-tax-dollars-tanf-c…

FlyingSquid , 22 days ago

Similarly, Swyer Syndrome.

medlineplus.gov/genetics/…/swyer-syndrome/

FlyingSquid OP , 22 days ago

Slow news day in Saskatoon?

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

Nope, I literally did not assume she was Muslim. That is a lie. One of many lies you have told about me.

I have given you many opportunities and have been very lenient, but you are done here for the next week.

FlyingSquid , 22 days ago (edited 22 days ago)

I am not worried about their environmental impact, but I hate seeing my dog spending the evening shaking because of the explosions. Even sedatives aren’t enough. If you could have fireworks without the big booms, I wouldn’t care, but the big booms scare the shit out of a lot of animals.

FlyingSquid , 22 days ago

Mine did a little better this year because instead of trying a prescribed sedative, the vet suggested we try catnip because (I never knew this before) it has a calming and sedating effect on dogs and it’s safe for them. We tested it first because apparently it doesn’t work on all dogs, but at least that time only the big fireworks scared her and she was able to be okay through the little ones. But she was still shaking and panting a lot. I was just glad she was able to go to sleep after the big ones ended.

I’m not a vet, so don’t just take my word for this obviously, but I thought I’d put that out there in case anyone wanted to ask their vet about it. I did some research after they recommended it and (I have a good vet, but you never know) it seems like there’s no health issue if you use it in moderation.

Edit: Our dog is 60 pounds and the vet suggested a half a teaspoon sprinkled in her food.

FlyingSquid , 21 days ago

My dog is 60 pounds. So that’s pretty big for a little ankle-biter.

FlyingSquid OP , 21 days ago

I don’t enjoy it, I just don’t see why I should accept that Domino’s is doing something that it’s okay to do.

I understand that you think it’s acceptable for Domino’s to have a two-tier pricing system depending on how smart you are. I don’t. I can’t help not being smart no matter how much you think I can.